Spring Cloud Configuration Server not working with local properties file

Question

I have been playing around with the Spring Cloud project on github located here: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-config

However I have been running into

Answer 1

I've had this issue on Mac when there is a space in a path to a file:

spring.cloud.config.server.native.search-locations=file:///Users/.../Development/Folder with a space /prj

Also pay attention that there are 3 slashes before Users:

spring.cloud.config.server.native.search-locations=file:///Users/...

or I use:

spring.cloud.config.server.native.search-locations=file://${user.home}/Desktop

The native property is:

spring.profiles.active=native